The Galata Sarayı, registered in İstanbul’s records from the end of the 15th century onwards as a palace school; is the city’s only non-religious…

You can explore Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi’s collection at the Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi (1899 – 1984): Architectural Historian, Restorator, Collector exhibition. The calligraphy works found in his collection are…

Inspired by our “Memory of Human Kind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts” exhibition, in collaboration with Trendeki Yabancı magazine we published 6 stories by…

Attending the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (ICBS ‘22), held in Venice and Padua, Italy on August 22–27, 2022, where I presented two…

Gabriel Millet (1867–1953) established Byzantine art history and archaeology as an academic field in France at the turn of the twentieth century. Trained in…

Universal Modernism for a Polyphonic Republic İlhan Usmanbaş (b.1921) 1950s’ modernism penetrated the universal culture fabric through the music of İlhan Usmanbaş. At this…

You can explore Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi’s remarkable collection at the Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi (1899 – 1984): Architectural Historian, Restorator, Collector exhibition. This time on the blog we take…

This is the third International Congress of Byzantine Studies to be held in Italy, a full seventy years since the last edition hosted by…

This rare book is the third edition of Ayşe Fahriye’s Ev Kadını (Housewife), originally published in 1882. The book was transcribed in 2002 by Leman Erdemli and…

Inspired by our “Memory of Human Kind: Stories from the Ottoman Manuscripts” exhibition, in collaboration with Trendeki Yabancı magazine we will be publishing 6…